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Thermodynamics of mixed micelle and mixed monolayer formation and solubilization of N-alcohol in the mixed micelles

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6564098
A new method of calculating the composition of mixed micelle and mixed monolayer in equilibrium with monomer of known composition is proposed. The Gibbs-Duhem equation and the pseudo-phase separation model were used in the proposed method. The method needs only CMC data and the monomer concentrations at the standard state surface tension as a function of monomer composition, but is limited to binary surfactant systems. The proposed methodology is applied to cationic/cationic, cationic/nonionic, and anionic/nonionic surfactant pairs. 156 refs., 68 figs., 7 tabs.
Research Organization:
Oklahoma Univ., Norman (USA). School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
DOE Contract Number:
FG05-87ER13678
OSTI ID:
6564098
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/13678-16; ON: DE89005143
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English